Posted on 08/17/2018 10:15:19 AM PDT by gattaca
I have relatives who are hard core feminists and Democrats. The primary reason: abortion. They have had several abortions each, and they not only don’t want to deal with any potential criticism - - they want applause for what they have done. I suspect there are millions of women who vote Democrat for the exact same reason.
“We are going to have to MARRY them.”
One of the big predictors of a successful marriage is political compatibility. I knew a guy who never responds to his wife’s liberal tirades with anything beyond “yes dear.” If he answers they end up in an argument which continuously escalates. If he doesn’t give in to stop it the argument becomes damaging.
He got married too young to realize they didn’t really have that much in common.
bkmk
My b-i-l and his wife are on the opposite spectrum politically.
She’s a flaming PP supporting liberal who has no use for Christianity.
However, she knows where we stand as Christians and when we get together, we simply do not discuss politics. It’s an unspoken rule.
Keeps the peace and maybe some day she’ll see the light.
We pray for them.
Well, as I am on S/S benefits and been married to one of those women for 44 years, I feel I've done my part and am out of the pool now.
My wife has never voted for a Democrat but to my regret, she also has never voted at all.
It is probably not what you think. She has always been afraid of being placed on Jury Duty from Voter Rolls. When "Motor Voter" came along, an obviously zealous government lackey signed her up without even asking, but she will never start voting now and end her fine streak of defiance.
I see crying with laughter, tub of popcorn, cheers for beers, and thumbs up for a good show!
You mean nice PEOPLE are leaving the Democrat Party!
“He (her favorite anchor) blatantly lied,” she said. “ABC panned the audience showing empty stands . . . . I was shocked. I never believed I would be lied to that blatantly on national news. That brought me into reality. What had I been listening to all these years?”
I remember the disheartened feeling(along with anger) that I felt many, many years (in the 90’s) ago when I realized that the MSM was lying. Not a good feeling. It will take awhile for some of them to sort through it and come to the conclusion that they’ve been hoodwinked to put it mildly.
Too many of us were lazy, letting them spoon feed us the news without questioning.
My ‘’walk away ‘’moment of being a Leftie came in 1996. I had voted for BJ Clinton, twice. But when the Monica Lewinsky thing broke I realized what a lair he was. Then, through a dear friend,now departed, a man who served his country honorably as an artillery sergeant in Vietnam , educated about who and what the Left were really all about. How, thinking as I did and as I had been led to believe the Nazis were right wingers he showed that they were in reality Leftists. He explained to me and gave me documentation of the true, racist, anti-American history of the Democrat Party, who, truth is have NEVER been about freedom, liberty and the greatness of America. The Democrat Party has been trying since the late 1830s to destroying this nation and remake it in it’s own warped vision of a totalitarian hell.
What is left then? The not nice?
That happened to me. Blissfully ignorant woman in So CA ( although living in a very patriotic city SAnta Clarita) and married my college sweetheart 11 years ago and took me to live with him in Arizona. He was going to take me on vacation day on election day so I wouldn’t cancel his vote.
But I changed listened to Rush every morning, attended events with Mark Stein and all the heavy hitters of the conservative movement, even went to dinner with Free Republic’s LS when he came to town to promote his movie about how rock and roll brought down the wall. I attended all the tea party events. Had prayer meeting with my neighbors before the elections.
Yes, marry a conservative is a great action plan. It worked with me.
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This group is for people who can no longer support the tyrannical groupthink of the "Politically Correct" Left.
It is NOT a group that supports the Right, the GOP, or Trump.
There's a difference. A rejection of the Left should not imply an embrace of the Right; that's a false binary that gets us nowhere.
Too many of us were lazy, letting them spoon feed us the news without questioning.
It was only at the end of the Reagan Administration that the Fairness (as if) Doctrine was allowed to lapse. The scales can more readily fall from peoples’ eyes now that Wire Service Journalism is no longer allowed to use the Imprimatur of the FCC to back up its fatuous claim of “journalistic objectivity.”Journalism is systematically and knowingly (“if it bleeds, it leads”) negative. To claim that “negativity is objectivity” is cynicism, neat. But journalism’s cynicism is directed at society (emphatically including societal leaders such as employers and businessmen). And although socialists like to systematically conflate society and government, the better society is, the less government is actually needed or desirable. Thus, cynicism towards society is close to synonymous with naiveté towards government.
And naiveté towards government is the defining characteristic of socialism. Who could possibly miss the fact that socialism systematically tends to produce misery and tyranny? Only those who are naive about government, and therefore cynical about society and its virtues, could think “socialism” (better called governmentism) is a good idea.
The question is not “Why does journalism propagandize in favor of socialism?” but why it should not. The answer is that journalism should consist of many ideologically competitive entities, but it has not be ideologically diverse in our lifetimes. As Rush puts it, if you miss one journalism report, you can always get the same message from any other journalism outlet. And, IMHO, the primary reason for that is wire service journalism.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)The Associated Press “wire” is a continuous virtual meeting of all major journalism outlets, and it has been in continuous operation since before the Civil War started. Accordingly, you have to be “naive as a babe to believe” that in a century and a half the members of the AP have found no way to benefit by conspiring against the public. I put it to you that the promotion of the conceit of journalistic objectivity - and of cynical criticism of society, promoting naive socialism - is Adam Smith’s predicted “conspiracy against the public."
Thanks for posting the entire article!
I’m sure Diamond and Silk, and their appearances around the country, are also contributing to waking up Dems to the corrupt behavior of the D Party.
Like the saying goes..."If one is not a liberal when he/she is 20, he has no heart......"
Women seem to be particularly susceptible to "early phase liberalism" because not only does it attack through the heart strings, it also talks of "empowering" them...they all start out singing Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman (hear me roar)" until they discover that the left expects them to be its whore.
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